John-Paul Shiver

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John-Paul Shiver has been contributing to 48 Hills since 2019. His work as an experienced music journalist and pop culture commentator has appeared in the Wire, Resident Advisor, SF Weekly, Bandcamp Daily, PulpLab, AFROPUNK, and Drowned In Sound.

Talking beat evolution with SF native producer Dave Aju

November 28, 2019

For years, Marc Barrite built out his Dave Aju alias, a wordplay nom de plum for a San Francisco techno night in the early...

5 artists you can’t miss from Noise Pop’s second wave

November 25, 2019

Facilitators of Noise Pop, the annual independent music festival that takes place in San Francisco the week of February 24th-March 1st, just announced their...

Brittany Howard’s fearless ‘Jaime’ blasts racism’s specter

November 19, 2019

With "Jaime", a fearless debut solo album from Brittany Howard (appearing Fri/22 at the Fillmore, SF), the incendiary lead singer of Alabama Shakes, there...

Kumail’s ‘Yasmin’ tunes into a celestial radio show

November 17, 2019

Art is based on the inability to predict how it will be received. Sometimes as a DJ you get tired of breaking fools' ankles. Kumail Hamid did....

Defying genre, Pursuit Grooves flies high with ‘Bess’

November 15, 2019

While researching Mae Jemison, the first Black female astronaut, Pursuit Grooves, aka Vanese Smith, read about her bringing Bessie Colemanʻs photograph along for the journey into...

Son Little’s gritty takes on vintage R&B run deep

November 6, 2019

Itʻs been three years since Son Little, the musical nom de plume of LA’s Aaron Earl Livingston, earned a Grammy Award for steering the...

Fierce rock energy at Miss June’s ‘Bad Luck Party’

November 2, 2019

When you first take a gander at the four-piece New Zealand band Miss June, make sure to pull back just in time to evade their...

Monophonics return with chest-out soul ‘Chances’

October 25, 2019

"Chances" the chest-out and sturdy, nimble groover, chronicles, in just over three minutes, the end of a relationship due to all the love which goes,...

Broken-beat pioneer Mark de Clive-Lowe revives his CHURCH

October 22, 2019

Way before old-guard magazines and new-school platform writers, present company included, broke their own minds blathering at the top of their Twitter voice about the current...

Michael Sneed’s ‘Days We Lost’ claps back at depression, debt

October 15, 2019

When Oakland artist Michael Sneed returned home in 2017 from graduating college in Washington DC, he didnʻt feel all that celebratory. Trying to sort out the next...